George Bugliarello

George Bugliarello, President Emeritus, University Professor and former chancellor of Polytechnic University, is an engineer and educator with a broad background ranging from fluid mechanics to computer languages, biomedical engineering and science policy. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, George Bugliarello also holds honorary lifetime membership in the National Association for Science, Technology and Society (NASTS). He is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and, from 1994 to 1997, chaired the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council.

He has served as chair of the National Research Council's (NRC) Committee on Alternatives to Antipersonnel Landmines, and member of the NRC Committee on Army Science and Technology for Homeland Defense, and he is an appointed member of the U.S. National Academies-Russian Academy of Sciences Committee on Terrorism Confronting the U.S. and Russia, as well as co-chair of a joint Russian-American Task Force on Urban Security. Dr. Bugliarello is co-editor of Technology In Society-an International Journal, Interim Editor-in-Chief of The Bridge, the quarterly publication of the National Academy of Engineering, and serves on several editorial boards. He is a member and former president (1992-1993) of Sigma Xi, as well as Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (1996-98).

Dr. Bugliarello's international experience includes consultantships abroad for UNESCO and OECD, and assignments as a specialist for the U.S. Department of State in Venezuela and Central Africa. He has been the U.S. member of the Science for Stability Steering Committee and of the Science for Peace Steering Committee, of the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO.

George Bugliarello spearheaded the creation of Metrotech, the large university-industry park that now surrounds Polytechnic University and of which Polytechnic University was co-developer with Forest City; led the creation of the Center for Finance and Technology at Polytechnic and in 1997 initiated the Center for Technology in Merchandising, the first such center in the nation to establish a direct connection between academic programs in engineering and the needs of the merchandising industry. He organized the University's Urban Security Initiative to address passing urban security problems through the engineering, scientific, management and educational capabilities of Polytechnic and collaborating institutions, industries and public entities.